S 1176

A.D. 708. Bealdhun (Bealthun) to Froda, abbot; grant of fishery called Swynwere in the river Parret, Somerset. Latin

Archive:

Muchelney

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 56488, f. 62v (s. xiii 2)

Printed:

Bates, Two Cartularies, no. 105 (p. 95)

Comments:

Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 95, suspicious; Finberg, ECW, no. 375, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, p. 204, probably authentic; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 357, on donor

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    • In nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi! Ego Bealthun, rogatus ab abbate Frode, aliquam partem fluminis Pedrete ad capturam pissium qui vocatur Swynwere pro remedio anime mee donans dedi enim hanc vero donacionem pistatorii habeat in proprio dominio sub privilegii racione ut nullus audeat eam irritam aut fractam facere sed in perpetuum ad solacium servorum Dei maneat intemerata, ad munificenciam huius donacionis Aldelmus episcopus et Yny rex Saxanorum gentis propriis + manibus signum crucis + subscripserunt. Si quis vero tyrannica potestate + fretus voluerit hanc donacionem frangere, sciat se racionem in extremo judicio redditurum Domino Deo nostro. Scripta sunt hec septingentesimo viii anno + Incarnacionis Christi sexta indicione.